Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dark Waters (United Artists) has all the makings of a first-class thriller and now & then seems likely to become one. But the grade-A eggs it breaks never quite make an omelet...
...tonic for the faint-hearted, the thriller consists of a running battle of wits between the Professor and his partner in crime, the very determined District Attorney (Raymond Massey), and the murdered man's blackmailing body-guard (Dan Duryea). "Deus ex machina" solves the apparently impossible situation in an ending of which the studio (International) seems unduly proud...
Riding the creast of a two game winning streak, Coach Jim McDonald's booters will try to make it three straight tomorrow afternoon when they play host to a powerful Bruin outfit that edged them 1 to 0 in a thriller at Providence last term...
Deceivingly billed as "M-G-M's Terrific Western Thriller," the new Beery vehicle (with square wheels) is really a wishy-washy comedy. Beefy Beory is just an easy-going tramp, very un-high waymanlike, who by very obvious means terrorizes a hunk of the Wild West by holding up stage coaches while posing as a respectable citizen...
...Woman in the Window (International) is a psychological thriller that tops anything in its line since Hitchcock's Suspicion. As the second time at bat for the newly formed producing team, International Pictures (TIME, Sept. 18), it marks another clean hit by Producer-Author Nunnally Johnson...